Feasibility Clinical Study of NLA Tool-US



Status:Completed
Conditions:Healthy Studies
Therapuetic Areas:Other
Healthy:No
Age Range:65 - 90
Updated:5/5/2014
Start Date:December 2013
End Date:April 2015
Contact:Roger Fielding, Ph.D.
Email:roger.fielding@tufts.edu
Phone:1 617 556 3016

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Trial Summary
Trial Overview
Inclusion Criteria

Evaluate the Feasibility of the NLA Tool, a Combined Assessment of Nutritional and Physical Functional Status, to Provide Personalized Advice for the Independence and Mobility of Elderly

The study is to evaluate the feasibility of the NLA tool, a combined assessment of
nutritional and physical functional status, to provide personalized advice for the
independence and mobility of elderly.

- Determining the proportion of elderly subjects who, according to the NLA result, would
qualify for a personalized program to improve their nutritional and physical status;

- Determining the segmentation (defined by cut-off criteria) of these elderly subjects
stratified into 3 NLA subgroups according to strength and endurance performance (33%
+/- 10% of target group)

Inclusion Criteria:

1. aged between 65 and 90 years,

2. able to walk with or without walking aid,

3. having obtained the subject's written informed consent

4. free of cognitive impairment (3MSE),

Exclusion Criteria:

1. self reported restriction to exercise(by a physician or other).

2. unable to carry out performance tests and questionnaires correctly,

3. self reported lower or upper extremity surgery or fracture in the last 3 months

4. self-reported symptomatic coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction in last 6
months

5. self reported history of neurological disease (e.g., Parkinson disease, stroke) with
residual impairment
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Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
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